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Jerry Johnston · Lexington, Kentucky · Logging since 1976
Commando Solo
Date
23-Oct-2001
Time (UTC)
*0030
Frequency
8700 kHz USB
Power
—
Site
Unknown
Country
Afghanistan(?)
NASWA country
Afghanistan?
Continent
Asia
Language
Pushto/Dari
Flags
REC
Anti-Taliban broadcast by U.S. gov't to Afghanistan. Psyops broadcast from EC-130E aircraft or relay. Anti-Taliban talk, local music.
Receiving QTH: Lexington, Kentucky, USA
#1481
Recording from the archive
20011023_0030_Commando-Solo_Afghanistan_8700.mp3
0030:00
UTC
0:00
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0:00
Commando Solo (EC130E flying over Afghanistan, or land-based in Turkmenistan)
Afghanistan?
23-Oct-2001
0030 UTC
8700 kHz USB
Pushto/Dari
U.S. broadcasts to Afghan people during war against Taliban following 9/11/01 World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. Broadcast claimed to be from an EC-130E flying over Afghanistan, but monitoring by other DXers shows propagation characteristic of a transmitter site at Ashgabat, Turkmenistan due to rapid-fire fading at local sunrise. Recording consists of sign-on ID and music, talk in local language.